Miniatures

...the miniature serves as a reminder of a reality which transcends the mundane surroundings of human life.

The space for the miniature is the space of the ‘imaginal world’ where the forms of nature, the trees, the flowers, and the birds, as well as the events within the human soul have their origin. This work itself is in fact both beyond this external world and within the soul of man.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr